tis the season to go spending as britain's sell spree begins we'll look at exactly who is pocketing the profits. this canada turnaround warns that the country is making a dangerous move by following washington and taking in the brain in a militant group of terrorists. and damascus blames terrorists for killing twenty killing children in the north on the rebels accuse the regime but it seems to be no clear picture behind the truth fingerpointing. with.

all the news that matters twenty four hours a day this is r.t. i'm carried off whether you prefer to hit the high street for the best deals all snap up office online this is the day to do it britain's boxing day bargain hunters are out in force and although they're keeping the u.k. stills ringing you might be surprised to know whose pockets are being lined my boy has been finding out. proud to be british brits interests alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says unaware that they're run by foreign companies harrods the dorchester hotel and even the queen's grocer fortnum and mason keeping the fortnum and mason is a british store. is it not. it's been here for ages so i

assumed it was wholly owned by british people so never mind everything's ok now you know the lazy nothings are getting. almost half the companies in the u.k. and now in foreign hands the coalition government in britain likes to talk about the march of the makers have a march of the makers if we're selling of all that is good household names like boots the chemist cadbury's chocolate and weetabix cereal have all been gobbled up by foreign corporations your traditional bacon butty hardly imaginable without h.p. sauce the name stands for houses of parliament the label even has westminster on it but the white house might be more fitting h.p. now belongs to heinz and as you're spreading your hartley's jam or your son packed peanut butter over your morning toast you might be surprised to learn that these british brands were just bought up by another american company in fact even thames

water which comes out of every single tap in and around london now belongs to an australian company advocates of foreign takeovers say they inject much needed cash into the british economy recently with premier foods not only selling off. pickle selling off hartley's just. some butter and also closing down some of their home manufacturing and it's interesting what's the reaction a great use for investors although is bleak news just before christmas. as for the workforce two years ago kraft the u.s. food giant swallowed up cadbury's chocolate it was a hostile takeover they slashed four hundred jobs and moved production to poland in the process but there are those that say that the loss of sweets is the least of britain's problems and the loss of control over ports to in this country and around the world where we have a huge network of of good international ports i think is

a very serious matter the loss of control over our airports the loss of control particularly over our energy companies which means decisions about our energy could control in supply and not made in london there maybe in paris and or overseas tax havens such as in switzerland when companies take over they often move their headquarters away from the u.k. or look for better advantages in terms of the tax system a good example of that was boots the chemist which was a company with a head office in nottingham for one hundred sixty one years and moved in switzerland where we had revenues of around eighty nine million pounds in corporation tax and they reduced that then to nine million so burden is then placed on the u.k. tax payer increases i think in terms of the eighty or other forms of taxation it has to be found and we're the ones paying for it other nations governments scrutinize every overseas bed france for example argues that it's in their national

interest to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands so while it's often difficult for a british company to buy abroad over thirty billion pounds worth of domestic companies made their way into foreign hands last year last month westminster said that it wouldn't change any laws but would take a greater interest in foreign acquisition the only thing is by the time they get around to it there might be nothing left to sell polly boy see london terror warning canada that. made a dangerous move by taking on a taurus iranian militant group off its terrorist kind of there is a following a similar move by the u.s. in accepting that the any way has renounced violence and wants peaceful regime change in iran if a national looks at the organizations record and it has from some iranians who are wary of the digital izing it muhammad shows me his box of handmade treasures

earrings attendance all made from stone the only material he could find in the prison yard. michel martin this is how we killed time and the pain from the torture and hunger i still get headaches when i remember this talking about the sham valley iranian soldier mohammad spent eighteen years in an iraqi jail during the nineteen eighties iran iraq war he says he would have been freed earlier if he joined the ek image he didn't help he realize the militant revolutionary group was fighting iran in authority on the side of saddam hussein and recruiting new members a month reasoners but mohamed refused. they were terrorists killing innocent people i couldn't have anything to do with them i betray my country then the group indeed had a very gory history in the one nine hundred sixty s. it started a bombing campaign against iran's shah and his allies they were linked to the killing of american citizens and welcome to the us embassy siege in teheran openly

calling for the execution of the hostages. the terror continued after reason to make revolution with the association of the country's president prime minister along with many politicians and clerics with generous support from hussein it fought hard in iran as well as saddam's enemies inside iraq in one thousand nine hundred seventy m. ek joined america's least of terrorist organizations along with al qaida and hamas and was cited in arguments for the invasion of iraq today iran iraq still view e.-k. as terrorist group but america's position has now flipped any case is iran's democratic call this is just part of the large scale and successful lobby to get off the terror least among backers former white house officials army generals and cia chiefs clint extremely disturbing this is a this is this at the time was a terrorist group they were supposed to be paying officials and moving money around and yet somebody was turning a blind eye to that i think that anything potentially is going to have an influence

on the u.s. policy towards iran and could get us into a very dangerous position as far as potentially going to war with iraq iranian officials second that saying and became a place similar role that america back to position forces played in regime change in libya and in the current conflict in syria the main support of beasts to reduce groups or to use because they use for that through to through political means. new yorker reporter in his article called our men in iran reveals how members of m.b. k. were trained by america's joint special operations command in a camp in nevada. this is part of an anteroom policy sanctions on iran a strong but they don't seem to work very well america started using inside agents to destabilize the country and they're using terrorism as a tool and out of those questionable ties between israel and iran according to

america's n.b.c. network and named u.s. officials confirmed and like a was involved in the assassination of a number of iranian nuclear scientists backed by israeli intelligence service my son by israel secret service this quaint tehran is named after the terrorists a man iranian nuclear scientist killed in his own car this area known as midan job is a very popular and vibrant place many people pass through here while heading to the mountains resort outside to hear on an ideal location to remind people about something that shouldn't be forgotten or forgiven. mohammad says and make a recognized as a democratic alternative to run in authorities feel so real to him that. nothing's changed they are terrorist tactics may be changed but still the west uses it to get information to get what they want. and the terrorists he says is likely to keep his brutal ways to. from iran. syrian leaders claim terrorist

groups are behind the deadly shelling in northern syria opposition activists said the attack that killed twenty people with at least eight thought to be children was carried out by government forces it happened in a province that seen fighting escalate in recent months the latest now from our middle east correspondent. what we hearing at least eight children have been killed over that number could be as high as twenty the videos and pictures of the witnessing have been posted to you too but of course it's almost impossible to verify the authenticity the claims are being made by the syrian observatory for human rights the organization known as the age of the gaelic needs to be said that it has given misinformation in the past back in may when there was the houla massacre became was that some one hundred people had been killed but later a lot of the massacre looked for to round it were found to have been false the

russian foreign ministry has warned against this kind of this information and this made the point that this organization is spreading information that cannot be absolutely trusted according to the foreign ministry there are only two people working this organization and as a result their credibility is questionable we've witnessed in the last few days these syrian rebels claiming that the syrian president bashar assad has been using chemical weapons against them at the same time we've also heard from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that the assad regime has done what it needs to do to put these women we in safe hands as we understand that they've been used to just two locations we're also hearing the same kind of sentiments being expressed by the israeli vice prime minister moshe ya'alon he said that information that assad's regime has used chemical weapons against the militants is most likely true activists are claiming that the civilians have suffered injuries consistent with exposure to some kind of poisonous gas before the hearing also from the israeli

vice prime minister is that the opposition has an interest in drawing in international military intervention that each party has its own agenda and its own weight of waging what is essentially an information war again the point needs to be made that we have no independent verification of what is happening in syria and as the israeli vice prime minister say it and to quote him as things stand now we do not have any confirmation or proof that chemical weapons have been used. there is growing global concern over israel's a planned settlement expansion it's approved twelve hundred more least. two state solution could be lost forever we report later. and our team pulls more major events from twenty twelve to take a close look at the u.s. presidential race and the candidates sidelined by the main news outlets that's ahead.

tucked in between the russian mainland japan and the circling island is the island of minute on named after french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the pride of the sakhalin region we'll take a look what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the boarders own and was completely restricted to visit is now this picture place is open to tourists unique plants and animals are its top attraction. really has been exploring the deaths on the world seas for several decades but it's here at more your own island where he has finally found what he'd been looking for . me the most the water here is very clear the visibility is very good and the underwater world here is extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across

the planet including the island of bali but mine are on top of my list while some go to the sakhalin region to enjoy the sights others convert the island's nature's riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the tonight shock hundreds of thousands of tons of fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious salamon caviar almost and there's a serious tribute of any feast in russia the owner of the enterprise says a good fishing season can bring in more than one hundred million dollars net profit . and to a large extent this is old to do what succulent offers environmentally they do not operate in only and natural habitat and mild climate unique natural sights and delicious seafood succulent can offer a diverse holiday for those who are not afraid to travel ten thousand kilometers from europe the question is whether this distant land would ever be able to become

a major tourist destination. here with our tayyar with more international stories for you. there's a warning to israel that settlement expansion is a threat to peace and the two state solution with the palestinians israel's most recent announcement of twelve hundred more homes in this truce that brings the total number of housing units planned in the past few weeks to five and a half thousand these are illegal under international role but around half a million people already live in israeli settlement of peace campaigner ron pundak says their fate and the expansion of homes have become political bargaining chips. settlements is definitely within the vocabulary of talking into the center right

voters so i believe that between now and twenty second of january we see only a variation of the discourse from the prime minister and the round of the issue of settlements i hope that those will stay only messages which are connected to elections and not to the ality and practices on the ground of the five hundred thousand to being divided at all two hundred thousand titles with in jerusalem and there is a total agreement with the palestinian side in the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred will stay inside is why we really delineate the borders of jerusalem then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are living very close to just sent to the green line would become part of israel within the exchange of territories and there is a minority of approximately eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government

of again shown in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we can make it so if between us and peace will be standing one hundred thousand is where it which will have to go over and be accepted and will be. and we compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes with the national interest of the majority of israelis. egypt's president is trying to rally people behind the new constitution which got over sixty percent of backing in a controversial referendum although turnout was low it clears the way for a parliamentary election in a country that remains deeply polarized and the pundits insisting both the poll and charter aren't deeply flawed and a threat to freedom angry protesters blocked traffic in car on tuesday after the final result was announced the charter empowers the traditional parliament's upper chamber it will hold the legislative. or house is elected in the next two months

opposition is worried that the muslim dominated body which held its first session on wednesday will deal a blow to rights for women and minorities. from the institute of arab and islamic studies says the constitutional referendum of both aboveboard. this is the first. constitution that you have the president cannot move the egyptian column and cannot . you have a prime minister who is actually empowered to take decisions without back to the president so it empowers other such as other elected civilian centers of power but you have. democrats collections. used to become the majority what will happen if these islamist parties could not deliver on the promises but not have better security about the economic conditions i think what will happen the people will vote against them if you look at the voting behavior in egypt the

parliamentary elections around seventy percent voted for islamist. parties and in the presidential elections around fifty one percent of voters declining going down mainly because they are not opposition anymore they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just for must. not deliver so now people have expectations and they can control politicians by voting. movie about. demise has spooked the cia for websites we tell you why because intelligence community was so worried by what they saw they wanted to consider the drama not a documentary about what really happened. plus how long it could be sustained on the laws thanks to bacteria from siberia i can get the science on the story a. wealthy british style holds

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house of parliament has approved the ban on u.s. citizens adopting russian children the draft law is a response to washington's magnitsky act which bans entry and freezes assets on russian officials and actually involving human rights violations well adoption restrictions backing in. follows its passing state we could get despite strong opposition from campaign media. presidential approval to. the act is named after a two year old russian boy who died after his adoptive u.s. father left him in a car on the. critics say the move deprives thousands of orphans the chance of finding. what it takes a look now at some other stories making news at this hour. exposed by works warehouse in nigeria's largest city resulting blaze destroyed.

protection of rights for some might just as accused of trying to marginalize them throughout the country the sectarian conflict is the third major protest in less than a week since the arrest of ten bodyguards of a senior official the community which insurgents here are the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion but the shiite majority to power. a suicide attacker who tried to blow up a u.s. military outpost in afghanistan killed at least three people and left seven more injured guards opened fire on a minibus packed with bombs in a vehicle exploding before reaching the entrance to the camp chapman compound the taliban says it was targeting local police working for the americans there will be one people including six u.s.

troops have died in attacks this year in the volatile city near the pakistan border . iran is preparing to conduct a week of naval drills in the gas fields of the strait of hormuz in the persian gulf war ships submarines and missile defense systems will be tested iran says it's a peaceful demonstration of iran's defensive capabilities are missing it won't violate international law and respect the maritime borders of neighboring countries . with the new year nearly hair r.t. is taking stock of the events which shaped twenty twelve today we look at coverage of the u.s. presidential debates and the struggle for those candidates who didn't have multibillion dollar campaigns to get a voice. we

have been running the election of close to your ears for more than two weeks before the election every single day there was a story by a correspondent running while guests on the show it said traits that truck so given the voice through the third parties was exactly what we needed to get the full picture. we are just a couple hours away now from the third party debate as you can see our production crew is busy transforming our studio in a debate floor one of the most important functions of democracy is to the debate a lot of discussion about a lot of issues and the more we can open up don't credit institutions like our our election system which a multiple parties to what it might even be considered fringe parties more likely we are to have an open arms to be a wide variety of issues rather than a very narrow people often ask why is it a tool for straight what you know of the right heads in the country to compete and

then you have to explain that there are other voices but that they were pushed out of the process because they're not part of the big party machine on foreign policy for example the alternative candidates have clearly been against military intervention is against military expansion that will fly with the four washington establishment the other networks covered president obama and governor romney to debating whatever right here in our studios we had two very serious candidates talk about very serious issues that were absent elsewhere everywhere they talked about the n.b.a. they talked about drones to talk about the war on drugs and this is something that we put together because not only do we know there was a point but our audience was asking for it we haven't seen it too much of you in the mainstream media do you think tomorrow they will be talking about how you did impact. the election well that that would be the pie in the sky is that the guy would impact the election and let me just give you a chronology of the libertarian party. you know the fact is you go from an

unknowing to a spoiler to a player we really need to be bringing third parties fourth parties because parties into that which are blocking traffic matters adults are prepared to write i think you know. i don't think i feel like this is a win for the american people that we have been able to enter into this race to break into the party and offer the solutions that the american people are clamoring for and. will shortly up into lavelle debates whether fresh water could soon become as valuable as oil gold cross-talk is off the bricks that it's.

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